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my opinion is i hope so satiny drones back to the pentagon and i hope the agency will go back through intelligence. and this is the dick believe so completely. he used to say you can fly over and see how many points you have, but it cannot tell what's in the liter spring, within the in the leader's mind, what they are thinking and unique human intelligence for that. i just think they should go back to human intelligence. that's what they need. >> well, thank you also much for coming. [applause] >> at lockheed is the principal naval strategy of the northern states, the principal naval strategy of the southern state is commerce raiding. one gun on a pivot right there between the maps and if you're going after merchant ships, one is all you need. if you caught a merchant ship, the idea was come alongside and put a price crew on board. take it to a port where price court judge can adjudicate it adjudicate it, sell it at an auction and you got to keep all the money. but of course because it depends entirely on the boat is coming to shipowner paid the man, the ship itself, supplied the food
my opinion is i hope so satiny drones back to the pentagon and i hope the agency will go back through intelligence. and this is the dick believe so completely. he used to say you can fly over and see how many points you have, but it cannot tell what's in the liter spring, within the in the leader's mind, what they are thinking and unique human intelligence for that. i just think they should go back to human intelligence. that's what they need. >> well, thank you also much for coming....
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>> guest: because rapidly we went through the up "pentagon papers" and watergate and just as i thought things would calm down, we went through a large strike him in 1975 so those were very cosmic events that happened in public so to speak. >>c-spane "pengon papers" chapter, i wrote some games down the back because there are so many people that people had heard of people in the government and out of law firms i just want to know how you kept all of these people street. for instance you had your lawyer bill rodgers who was secretary of state. >> guest: no. >>c-span: he was not you're the lawyer then but he had been. paul ignatius' the president of your company was secretary of the navy. croswell kirkpatrick played a role somewhere. >> guest: he was a partner and before that he was in the government and then deputy defense secretary. >>c-span: and williams was your husband's attorney. >> guest: when he was thinking he wanted a divorce and. >>c-span: in to take your money to go the other way but did you would leave on him. >> guest: we became very close friends but then later we would go i
>> guest: because rapidly we went through the up "pentagon papers" and watergate and just as i thought things would calm down, we went through a large strike him in 1975 so those were very cosmic events that happened in public so to speak. >>c-spane "pengon papers" chapter, i wrote some games down the back because there are so many people that people had heard of people in the government and out of law firms i just want to know how you kept all of these people...
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that is 60% of what they want to take additional lay out of the pentagon. where does the leadership say we will stop? to have a special subcommittee with the bad actors and we demand those people get fired but none of that happens. you could not perform on a contract and do it with impunity because members of congress are basically not willing or inexperienced to know you should hold people accountable whether a federal employee but that is one example just this week. >> host: what was the business you built? >> guest: my father started of machinery manufacturing business for our farming business. i had a different lens division in southern virginia 1969 through 2,008. >> host: does still exist? >> it has been sold portions of it exist. >> we're here is the author of radical chapters the kevlar bookstore was open in 1950 fined one negative a 1955. who was roy? >> guest: most influential peace activist of his generation, he helped found the first listener's sponsored radio station in the country, he helped to lead the war resisters league and found the first
that is 60% of what they want to take additional lay out of the pentagon. where does the leadership say we will stop? to have a special subcommittee with the bad actors and we demand those people get fired but none of that happens. you could not perform on a contract and do it with impunity because members of congress are basically not willing or inexperienced to know you should hold people accountable whether a federal employee but that is one example just this week. >> host: what was...
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during the time of the pentagon papers. in other words, you... >> guest: no. c-span: he wasn't your lawyer then, but he--he was secretary of state... >> guest: yes. c-span: ... but he had been your lawyer. >> guest: yes. right. c-span: paul ignatius was--was he president of your company? >> guest: yes. c-span: and he had been secretary of the navy. >> guest: yes. c-span: but he was at your company then. >> guest: yes. c-span: rozwell kilpatrick played a role somewhere in your company. >> guest: roz was not--a, he was in a--involved with us as a law partner in cravath and before that he'd been in the government. c-span: was he deputy sec... >> guest: and then he went on--he was on our--yes, he was deputy s--defense secretary. c-span: and ed williams had--edward bennett williams had been your husband's attorney. >> guest: when he was--when he was thinking he wanted a divorce. c-span: divorce and take some of your money and go the other way and then you ended up leaning him at a time--for a price... >> guest: we became very close friends, and then he came in as t
during the time of the pentagon papers. in other words, you... >> guest: no. c-span: he wasn't your lawyer then, but he--he was secretary of state... >> guest: yes. c-span: ... but he had been your lawyer. >> guest: yes. right. c-span: paul ignatius was--was he president of your company? >> guest: yes. c-span: and he had been secretary of the navy. >> guest: yes. c-span: but he was at your company then. >> guest: yes. c-span: rozwell kilpatrick played a role...
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he was the guy who copied pentagon papers. it was an interesting book i had ban student of vietnam before that. the basic outrage came from after being part of the pentagon papers study, is what it was. he came to the conclusion that american policy makers weren't stupid. they had done annalist after annalist and coming to the conclusion what they needed to in vietnam was x, but politically they weren't willing do that. they were willing to do y. they were following policy y cynically knowing the possibility of success was left. they were taking a politically expedient route against policy prescription said if you want to succeed you have to do. so i thought about that. it's a difficult question to ask. you ask yourself how are you supposed to tell and how much are they supposed to know? i think we struggle today with trying to explain something as complex as afghanistan and not doing it in a organized enough manner. if you go to back to world war ii, someone could put up a map and you could show progress across the country. i
he was the guy who copied pentagon papers. it was an interesting book i had ban student of vietnam before that. the basic outrage came from after being part of the pentagon papers study, is what it was. he came to the conclusion that american policy makers weren't stupid. they had done annalist after annalist and coming to the conclusion what they needed to in vietnam was x, but politically they weren't willing do that. they were willing to do y. they were following policy y cynically knowing...
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the the fact he ended the war in iraq and meandering toward the war in afghanistan allowing the of pentagon, an institution of the fine motor skills of a dinosaur takes them a long time to put something together for withdrawal. all obama has to do is look at gorbachev. he came 1985, a secret speech 1986 denouncing afghanistan, he had them tell shultz they were getting out and then announce a timetable then were gone. we need to do something similar. he had 11 commanders in 11 years. take a look at the books the general that the votes attention to is this. that is not a war to be successful no military ever successful where they have a sanctuary. not only that but an ally in pakistan to provide billions of dollars of economic aid that makes the picture somewhat confusing how would you disengage from the situation you support vertically integrated criminal enterprise called the of course, i government? but we are finding our way as a resolution, i don't know how many years this will take. my optimism is the team that are too good appointments. wonder why obama wasted time with susan rice who
the the fact he ended the war in iraq and meandering toward the war in afghanistan allowing the of pentagon, an institution of the fine motor skills of a dinosaur takes them a long time to put something together for withdrawal. all obama has to do is look at gorbachev. he came 1985, a secret speech 1986 denouncing afghanistan, he had them tell shultz they were getting out and then announce a timetable then were gone. we need to do something similar. he had 11 commanders in 11 years. take a look...
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somebody might want to tell the state department and the pentagon that world war two ended in 1945. there isn't a good reason to still have u.s. troops occupying a japanese and german territory. it's over. they are not our enemies now. we can worry about other things. yet there they are. i can explain to you why they are still there but those explanations usually boil down to things that have nothing to do with our well-being, nothing to do with the preservation of our liberties. they have everything to do with the ordinary politics of special-interest, rent seeking, all the things that make politics different from the idealistic politics. >> rac to basic sense of rationales the we get for going to the war or for intervening. one is the safety, security, the well-being and the freedom of the american people. the other is the freedom and well-being of the foreigners. you will often see this calculus coming into play where they will say we will make these sacrifices for the sake of these foreigners or in some cases it might hurt a lot of foreigners but we are doing it because we have
somebody might want to tell the state department and the pentagon that world war two ended in 1945. there isn't a good reason to still have u.s. troops occupying a japanese and german territory. it's over. they are not our enemies now. we can worry about other things. yet there they are. i can explain to you why they are still there but those explanations usually boil down to things that have nothing to do with our well-being, nothing to do with the preservation of our liberties. they have...
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he had a vast network of old college throughout the pentagon bureaucracy. he's reaching out to them. he deliberately forms a back channel. he cultivates this woman and the white house named meghan o'sullivan who was president bush's chief adviser on iraq for the national security council. he sees that she's kind of wavering from the existing policy. they form a back channel. they're talking on the phone practically every day. picture this. this is really kind of outrageous. is petraeus, a three-star general in fort leavenworth. is talking on the phone everyday with the senior advisor to the president of the united states. she will be asking him, you know, general casey who is a 4-star general actually commanding troops in iraq, general casey says we only need one more brigade. what do you think? petraeus we must reduce arguments that she could funnel to our seniors on why this really isn't enough. so you know when he comes to washington and meets and out of the way restaurants, by the way, this is not a paula broadwell situation. this district a professiona
he had a vast network of old college throughout the pentagon bureaucracy. he's reaching out to them. he deliberately forms a back channel. he cultivates this woman and the white house named meghan o'sullivan who was president bush's chief adviser on iraq for the national security council. he sees that she's kind of wavering from the existing policy. they form a back channel. they're talking on the phone practically every day. picture this. this is really kind of outrageous. is petraeus, a...
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my personal opinion is our hope he will send a drone's back to the pentagon and i hope the agency will go back to intelligence. this is what dick believed so completely. you need human intelligence. he used to say you can fly over and see how many planes you have but you cannot tell in a leader's brain what is in the leader's mind. you need human intelligence for that. i think they should go back to human intelligence. they keep saying there is an intelligence failure in new libya, that is what they need. >> thank you all, thank you so much for coming. [applause] >> is there a nonfiction author or book you like to see featured on booktv? send us an e-mail at booktv@c-span.org with sweets as at twitter.com/booktv. >> you have got to first of all persuade people that their soul is in dire danger, headed to the ultimate bonfire on the other side of existence. after that you need to label them followers of the devil. so to look for the devil and look at all the deities of the pentium, very complex religion, very elaborate, very well structured and they found -- and the eminent delicatessen
my personal opinion is our hope he will send a drone's back to the pentagon and i hope the agency will go back to intelligence. this is what dick believed so completely. you need human intelligence. he used to say you can fly over and see how many planes you have but you cannot tell in a leader's brain what is in the leader's mind. you need human intelligence for that. i think they should go back to human intelligence. they keep saying there is an intelligence failure in new libya, that is what...
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i worked in the pentagon, it would have made it better. [laughter] so we realized you've really got to go after the people who do logistics, communications, pass information, build car bombs, communicate. you've got to take those out. and so we came up with a strategy, and i know philadelphia will love this, but i used to tell people it's like rocky balboa and apollo creed. we're going to hit them in the midsection, and we're going to hit them a lot. so from august 2004 when we did 18 raids, two years later same force, same fight we were doing 300 raids a month. that's ten a nightment now, if you stop and you say, well, ten a night, that's a lot, that's impress e. that means every raid guy on the force is going on a raid at least one raid every night. every pilot's flying one or two raids every night. and these raids are not patrols. this is not a foot -- these are going in the door, somebody's getting shot. extraordinary. and to do that, though, you can't use previous systems. one, you've got to be able to bring in this intelligence on an
i worked in the pentagon, it would have made it better. [laughter] so we realized you've really got to go after the people who do logistics, communications, pass information, build car bombs, communicate. you've got to take those out. and so we came up with a strategy, and i know philadelphia will love this, but i used to tell people it's like rocky balboa and apollo creed. we're going to hit them in the midsection, and we're going to hit them a lot. so from august 2004 when we did 18 raids,...
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that is 60 percent of what they want to take out of the pentagon. why do we do that? with the leadership to say we get this stopped? we have a special committee to look at this, oversight would get the bad actors we will demand the people who make those decisions get fired and company's nonperforming pay the money back. none of that happens. you can defraud the federal government, not performing a contract and do it with impunity because members of congress are basically not willing or inexperienced to not know you could hold people accountable for
that is 60 percent of what they want to take out of the pentagon. why do we do that? with the leadership to say we get this stopped? we have a special committee to look at this, oversight would get the bad actors we will demand the people who make those decisions get fired and company's nonperforming pay the money back. none of that happens. you can defraud the federal government, not performing a contract and do it with impunity because members of congress are basically not willing or...
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to give a lecture inside the pentagon at a luncheon about the state of is dawn in the world among the sandwiches had bacon and invited that yvonne to come then served bacon? no wonder did you empty when so swimmingly. [laughter] tel lot can go with a guy who did not come from a radical family his parents are upstanding in amazing people and still are and his dad is one of the most respected academics in yemen and came to the united states on a scholarship with usaid and officials and spend his life trying to solve the water crisis they did not raise him to be the guy you saw in the two videos to call for a jihad against united states but he was a guy who was radicalized by the u.s. or abroad and at home and eventually leaves united states windows to yemen and starts recording sermons and they become a very popular around the world then pop up with a tear investigation and they are concerned it would in sight terrorism some of the united states colludes with the regime to arrest him that he has jumped of charges and is put in prison 18 months of those 17 in solitary confinement. the un
to give a lecture inside the pentagon at a luncheon about the state of is dawn in the world among the sandwiches had bacon and invited that yvonne to come then served bacon? no wonder did you empty when so swimmingly. [laughter] tel lot can go with a guy who did not come from a radical family his parents are upstanding in amazing people and still are and his dad is one of the most respected academics in yemen and came to the united states on a scholarship with usaid and officials and spend his...
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sending the planes back to the pentagon if you remember after a summit in nodding capture he can add a the warehouse to gave a long spiel i am hoping he can be more circumspect but he knows the agency well but i hope my a personal opinion is seasons the drone's back in the agency goes back to true intelligence. this is what dick believed so completely with human intelligence you can fly to see how many planes but he cannot tell you what is in the leaders brain or mind and you need human intelligence for that's. i think they should go back they say there is the intelligence failure in the viet that is what they need. >> host: thank you for coming. [applause] >> we're here with judge block. you were brought onto the court in 1984 pahang. >> guest: correct. nominated by president clinton and with seconded by senator moynihan. 18 years. >> host: inside life -- look at the life and works. >> there is no regular day in the courtroom. we send people to jail, and our sheriff high profile trials in new york city. in your city is very dynamic i have had a terrorist case over if you name it i h
sending the planes back to the pentagon if you remember after a summit in nodding capture he can add a the warehouse to gave a long spiel i am hoping he can be more circumspect but he knows the agency well but i hope my a personal opinion is seasons the drone's back in the agency goes back to true intelligence. this is what dick believed so completely with human intelligence you can fly to see how many planes but he cannot tell you what is in the leaders brain or mind and you need human...
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sending the planes back to the pentagon if you remember after a summit in nodding capture he can add a the warehouse to gave a long spiel i am hoping he can be more circumspect but he knows the agency well but i hope my a personal opinion is seasons the drone's back in the agency goes back to true intelligence. this is what dick believed so completely with human intelligence you can fly to see how many planes but he cannot tell you what is in the leaders brain or mind and you need human intelligence for that's. i think they should go back they say there is the intelligence failure in the viet that is what they need. >> host: thank you for coming. >> his new book, america's great debate, stephena douglas and the compromise that preserve the union. what is so great about the great compromise? >> most people don't know anything about the compromise, have a vague recollection for junior high school. the nature of the crisis was this come in the kutcher ratcheted right of civil war. most of the political culture in americans that war was going to take base. the deep house was going to suc
sending the planes back to the pentagon if you remember after a summit in nodding capture he can add a the warehouse to gave a long spiel i am hoping he can be more circumspect but he knows the agency well but i hope my a personal opinion is seasons the drone's back in the agency goes back to true intelligence. this is what dick believed so completely with human intelligence you can fly to see how many planes but he cannot tell you what is in the leaders brain or mind and you need human...
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the pentagon's going to set it up. you want strategy? it's the pentagon. you want intelligence? the pentagon will do that. you want aid or assistance? the -- the pentagon was the source of all knowledge and all programs, and they pretty much, and this was rumsfeld and the people working under him, did not see a need to look to anybody else. it's hard to say this, but maybe the pentagon got used to this, maybe this pattern became so hardened that it's hard to change that. maybe that's part of the problem. i'm not really -- it's not the whole problem, but i think that there's some -- it raises some serious questions in terms of the role you've been conditioned or you have taken and you don't want to concede it. >> guest: you're absolutely correct. and particularly because we came out of iraq with feeling that pentagon saved the day. >> host: yeah. >> guest: very different from vietnam where the military didn't come out with a sense of they have saved the day. the day was saved by civilians in negotiations in paris. whereas in iraq they were the ones who solved the problem in their
the pentagon's going to set it up. you want strategy? it's the pentagon. you want intelligence? the pentagon will do that. you want aid or assistance? the -- the pentagon was the source of all knowledge and all programs, and they pretty much, and this was rumsfeld and the people working under him, did not see a need to look to anybody else. it's hard to say this, but maybe the pentagon got used to this, maybe this pattern became so hardened that it's hard to change that. maybe that's part of...
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you what strategy it's the pentagon, you want intelligence on matt, the pentagon was the source of all knowledge and programs and this is pretty much rumsfeld and the people working under him did not see the need to look to anybody else. it's hard to say this but maybe they got used to this pattern that became so heartened that it's hard to change that. maybe that's part of the problem. it raises some serious questions in terms of the role that you have been conditioned or taken and you don't want to concede it. >> guest: you are correct because we cannot fill in the pentagon saved the day. the day was saved by civilians and negotiations in paris. but in iraq they were the ones that solved the problems. that actually raises an important question as to whether the obama administration has been able to move away from the bush strategy. and i made this argument about when you look at iran and the drone a strategy it is often bush policy improved and better implemented but there hasn't been a real effort to reinvent american foreign policy pivoted one thing that is important is the dominat
you what strategy it's the pentagon, you want intelligence on matt, the pentagon was the source of all knowledge and programs and this is pretty much rumsfeld and the people working under him did not see the need to look to anybody else. it's hard to say this but maybe they got used to this pattern that became so heartened that it's hard to change that. maybe that's part of the problem. it raises some serious questions in terms of the role that you have been conditioned or taken and you don't...
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he had alv vast network of oldot colleagues throughout the pentagon bureaucracy. he's reaching out to them.s he deliberately forms a back v channel. he cultivates this woman in the white house named megyn to o'sullivan who is president bush's every chief adviser in the national security council. he sees she's kind of wavering. l security council and seized she is wavering and they're talking on the phone practically every day. this is outrageous. a three-star general from fort wet weather worsened talking on the phone every day with the senior advisor to the president of the united states general casey you is a four-star general commanding troops he says we only need one more brigade so those are arguments why it isn't enough so when it comes, by the way it is not paula bridewell but strictly professional. but subverting the chain of command he always has been off the reservation guy to do what is necessary here but at the same time a civilian analyst used to teach history he rode a steady advocating the surge at the american enterprise institute. said to get this
he had alv vast network of oldot colleagues throughout the pentagon bureaucracy. he's reaching out to them.s he deliberately forms a back v channel. he cultivates this woman in the white house named megyn to o'sullivan who is president bush's every chief adviser in the national security council. he sees she's kind of wavering. l security council and seized she is wavering and they're talking on the phone practically every day. this is outrageous. a three-star general from fort wet weather...
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a general from the pentagon mentioned that we were going to invade iraq. general clark asked why. the general answered, i do not know. six weeks later he ran into the general again. iraq?till going into we are going to invade seven countries in five years. one of the morem influential institutions out there informing public opinion and propaganda. you say that obama did the right thing here. wereee that the instance the internet and social media is taking over. brezinski says we are in a lot time wele -- the first have a worldwide awakening to what we have been doing for the past 400 years. is nowanglehold you have being broken. it wasn't so much obama saw the light. i am 66 years old. i have never seen the american people over 90% on one issue in my life. guest: the iraqi war is a big story. i happen to oppose the war. i thought it was a bad idea. issue that webig cannot tackle right now. i want to say something about nct.president's insti this is a president who do not want to see entanglements. in, he escalated afghanistan. his instinct is not to intervene. we know he was reluc
a general from the pentagon mentioned that we were going to invade iraq. general clark asked why. the general answered, i do not know. six weeks later he ran into the general again. iraq?till going into we are going to invade seven countries in five years. one of the morem influential institutions out there informing public opinion and propaganda. you say that obama did the right thing here. wereee that the instance the internet and social media is taking over. brezinski says we are in a lot...
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in these two are really clashed with in the pentagon. and what happens is a series of events happen, these carrier deployments. eventually it gets to the secretary of defense weinberger's attention to essentially sides with those who think alliance has been insubordinate and fires them come relieves them. in the middle of all of this admiral kraft, the guy who had privately encouraged him and the transcripts of the fall of conversations the trend lines in growler, he does not backing up and says that he knows nothing. saliva six the fall for something that the chairman and actually encouraged. >> interesting. first. >> you understand that ron is perhaps the largest piece of the threat environment. is no longer the soviet union of the russians to rerun the word about somali pirates, and the big scheme of things iran lens the largest as the possible military acquirement. how does a more junior military personnel, how did they understand u.s. policy? busted a snapshot of something fairly recent. the think our young military officers do see
in these two are really clashed with in the pentagon. and what happens is a series of events happen, these carrier deployments. eventually it gets to the secretary of defense weinberger's attention to essentially sides with those who think alliance has been insubordinate and fires them come relieves them. in the middle of all of this admiral kraft, the guy who had privately encouraged him and the transcripts of the fall of conversations the trend lines in growler, he does not backing up and...
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in -- when secretary of defense panetta was to speak about cyber pearl harbor, before he left the pentagon, he suggested a medal for fiber-operated and drone-operated. what has been hire in the medal in the hierarchy. there was an outcry among veterans who say wait a minute. are you serious? people who are -- in front of key boards thousand of miles away from the war or still on the military base where they had joy stick. they should be rewarded with the same medal, even better medal than people who do not fight the real fight. t scary. anybody who has been to a war zone, and, new york, i think almost, i mean, some of you may have experienced this on nieflt. we -- 9/11. we have to respect violence. i felt like in the department of warfare -- it sounds strange, we have lots of veterans we are teaching. people in active duty, people who are studying war. i felt unconsciousble talking cyber war. it doesn't feel right in retle -- relation to those people who have experience. i don't like the metaphor. for me the big reasons go back to initial -- why write the book? it was an mother-in-law thin
in -- when secretary of defense panetta was to speak about cyber pearl harbor, before he left the pentagon, he suggested a medal for fiber-operated and drone-operated. what has been hire in the medal in the hierarchy. there was an outcry among veterans who say wait a minute. are you serious? people who are -- in front of key boards thousand of miles away from the war or still on the military base where they had joy stick. they should be rewarded with the same medal, even better medal than...
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the job of war is the pentagon's job. let's understand the division of labor and thank god the pentagon works for the presidents. the job of scoring a business cia's job. [laughter] this country would have been better off if we had never had a cia and if we close today it would dramatically add to our security. it is a disastrous organization. [applause] said kennedy was resolved to move forward, and he started to plan an initiative. he knew that negotiations had come close, had fallen back, had been accidentally set off course so many times. you would find a way through and show that it would be possible to make an agreement with the soviet union. and this is exactly the strategy, by the way. we discussed this who knows what was read in the white house. but the professor related out. make incremental steps. build confidence on both sides. a lot of the cold war is in our heads. it is psychological. it is not fundamental differences. it is something about confidence, about trust, and it has to be built step-by-step. kenned
the job of war is the pentagon's job. let's understand the division of labor and thank god the pentagon works for the presidents. the job of scoring a business cia's job. [laughter] this country would have been better off if we had never had a cia and if we close today it would dramatically add to our security. it is a disastrous organization. [applause] said kennedy was resolved to move forward, and he started to plan an initiative. he knew that negotiations had come close, had fallen back,...
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daniel ellsberg had stolen classified documents from the pentagon and hence the pentagon papers. something that very few people know. perhaps his audience does now. the pentagon papers did not cover the nixon administration. he was protecting the democratic it ministers to the about kennedy. their conduct of the vietnam war he was protecting the executive branch and the existence of classified materials so yeah they broken to daniel ellsberg's psychiatry office and it was some of the same guys that broken the watergate -- liberals utter excesses every weekend and the library of congress to listen to the nixon watergate tapes. they are so obsessed with richard nixon. you would think in listening to these tapes they would hear richard nixon pacing around his office saying what thanks me so angry is they think i would be stupid enough to break-in to the watergate hotel democratic office. so he didn't know about it beforehand. he thought it was stupid. he did not think his people had anything to do with it. that was considered an impeachable offense when it was richard nixon and now
daniel ellsberg had stolen classified documents from the pentagon and hence the pentagon papers. something that very few people know. perhaps his audience does now. the pentagon papers did not cover the nixon administration. he was protecting the democratic it ministers to the about kennedy. their conduct of the vietnam war he was protecting the executive branch and the existence of classified materials so yeah they broken to daniel ellsberg's psychiatry office and it was some of the same guys...
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unfortunately, members of the pentagon said this was always the deception deception being done by bin laden to take everyone's eyes off of saddam hussein. after the attack, they got very aggressive in terms of policies they decided it took on. what you see in this book is what went into the decisions, how fast they were victims sometimes how badly they were made, but also some of them came out clearly the rate decisions. >> curt akin won't come to use the her secrets and lies. was fun until the lies he found? >> there are quite so many. when you get right down to it, some had to do the simple things such as the knowledge they had within the government about the connections between al qaeda and saddam hussein. one of the most surprising things to me was there as a defense intelligence agency report, a classified report that came out in 2002, that specifically said our intelligence on weapons of mass destruction is terrible. we can't establish any of the things were saying to the public and a quote from that document pretty extensively. so that was disturbing on the level that it really
unfortunately, members of the pentagon said this was always the deception deception being done by bin laden to take everyone's eyes off of saddam hussein. after the attack, they got very aggressive in terms of policies they decided it took on. what you see in this book is what went into the decisions, how fast they were victims sometimes how badly they were made, but also some of them came out clearly the rate decisions. >> curt akin won't come to use the her secrets and lies. was fun...
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said to get this into the warehouse into the pentagon to some of these subordinates in iraq so basically by the time the trade is becomes the commander everything is lined up to impose a strategy with the united states government this is not a coincidence, it is very exclusively coordinated. what does he do? one thing that is already starting to have been is this is a pivotal moment serial iraq and allied with al qaeda, it goes several steps to fire their getting upset and one to break with al qaeda and there is a criminal named shawn mcfarland to canada this group to switch to our side to fight but the trieste's realizes what is going on to apply this struck the country and does this by setting up a program called the sons of iraq. he pays them out of the commander discretionary fund. with a neighborhood watch those who have been shooting at american's two weeks earlier and at the same time he needs to go after the militia prime minister maliki told the prime minister's day at of sadr city now in some kind of alliance he just send these guys in and does not wait for approval. there is a
said to get this into the warehouse into the pentagon to some of these subordinates in iraq so basically by the time the trade is becomes the commander everything is lined up to impose a strategy with the united states government this is not a coincidence, it is very exclusively coordinated. what does he do? one thing that is already starting to have been is this is a pivotal moment serial iraq and allied with al qaeda, it goes several steps to fire their getting upset and one to break with al...
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there would be pieces submitted by the cia, the says submitted by the pentagon. it was a way to get people into the country under different coven de rk t cia. this is coming at a time when the cia increasingly had been doing work unilaterally. in the years after 9/11, we did a lot of work with pakistani spies. at the end of the bush administration, the administration decided they will stop notifying drone strike some of the more unilateral and intelligence gathering operations became unilateral as well. it has to be done under the noses of pakistan's government. >> lighting changes in policy happen at that point? >> it was a build up of a number of years. is pretty good relations and teamwork in the years after 9/11. over time there was increasing frustration, lack of trust on both sides. the bush administration came to think pakistan is playing what they call a double game. they were al qaeda operatives. they drove straight that have been done with the consent of pakistan's government that didn't seem -- the people seem to flee at the las intelligence seem to be
there would be pieces submitted by the cia, the says submitted by the pentagon. it was a way to get people into the country under different coven de rk t cia. this is coming at a time when the cia increasingly had been doing work unilaterally. in the years after 9/11, we did a lot of work with pakistani spies. at the end of the bush administration, the administration decided they will stop notifying drone strike some of the more unilateral and intelligence gathering operations became unilateral...
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but the second two points, i think, are that, first of all, the pentagon didn't show you any video of things that missed. that's bad pr. and the percentage of weapons that were smart weapons in the first gulf war while infinitely more than anything the iraqis had was remarkably small compared to the impression the pentagon gave in their military briefings where they'd only show pictures of smart bombs and smart missiles and things flying through windows. that was a very, very tiny percentage of the munitions actually expended. so i don't think this was so much a revolution in military affairs so much as a vivid demonstration, as you point out, of just how proficient the united states was in waging war especially against a less proficient adversary. but it also was military affairs in a more philosophical, fundamental way, and that is claus wits still has a vote here, and the ultimate goal of the conflict was a political goal and, therefore, the military planning and the air war being a classic case in point of this were designed with a traditional military conclusion which in truth wa
but the second two points, i think, are that, first of all, the pentagon didn't show you any video of things that missed. that's bad pr. and the percentage of weapons that were smart weapons in the first gulf war while infinitely more than anything the iraqis had was remarkably small compared to the impression the pentagon gave in their military briefings where they'd only show pictures of smart bombs and smart missiles and things flying through windows. that was a very, very tiny percentage of...
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that is 60% of what they want to take out of the pentagon. why would we do that? where is the leadership to save the will get this stopped? we will have a special subcommittee with oversight and look at the bad actors to demand those to make those decisions are fired and the others pay back. none of that happens. you can defraud the federal government not perform and do it with impunity because members of congress are not willing or inexperienced to know that you should hold people accountable for what they say they will do whether federal employee employee, procurement employee with a company that is providing that is just an example of this week. >> host: will mature business before medical school? >> of machinery business for farm products started by my father i was plastic lens lens, class whence and interocular lenses as a division of that i did that in southern virginia. i've lived appear 10 years 69 through 2,008. >> host: does it still exist? >> it was sold and parts of it has been sold but portions exist.
that is 60% of what they want to take out of the pentagon. why would we do that? where is the leadership to save the will get this stopped? we will have a special subcommittee with oversight and look at the bad actors to demand those to make those decisions are fired and the others pay back. none of that happens. you can defraud the federal government not perform and do it with impunity because members of congress are not willing or inexperienced to know that you should hold people accountable...
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him and got access notte through petraeus certainly but some of the communications sent back to the pentagon, his sort of weekly letters, and i've come to the conclusion general petraeus did a very good job and the surge he oversaw work to militarily didn't work foley politically for a variety of reasons. but one thing petraeus understood is that the al qaeda that volunteers who were coming to join al qaeda in iraq were coming from the damascus airport crossing the border going into iraq and the syrian intelligence knew this. they pretended that they didn't, but they did and what he wanted to do is go fly to damascus with stanley the crystal and right in the special operations activities in iraq and confront him and say look we know what's going on. this is kind to come back and haunt you one day because these people who came in three or country are going to be going out the same day and one day they will have their sights on you. so you might be in your own interests to stop the flow of the foreign fighters as they call them that there was a debate within the bush administration and at the
him and got access notte through petraeus certainly but some of the communications sent back to the pentagon, his sort of weekly letters, and i've come to the conclusion general petraeus did a very good job and the surge he oversaw work to militarily didn't work foley politically for a variety of reasons. but one thing petraeus understood is that the al qaeda that volunteers who were coming to join al qaeda in iraq were coming from the damascus airport crossing the border going into iraq and...
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got access, not through petraeus, certainly, but to some of the communications he sent back to the pentagon, his sort of weekly letters, and i came to the conclusion that general petraeus did a good job in iraq, and the surge he oversaw worked militarily. it didn't work fully politically for a variety of reasons, but worked militarily. one thing petraeus understood was that al-qaeda, that volunteers coming to join al-qaeda in iraq were coming to the damascus airport, crossing the border, going into iraq, and syria intelligence knew this. they pretended they didn't, but they did, and what he wanted to do was go to damascus with stan mcchrystal in running special operations activities in iraq and confront assad with this and say, look, we know what's going on. this is going to come back to haunt you one day because people who came in through your country into iraq are going to be going out the same way, and one day they are going to have their sights on you so if you -- you might be in your own interest to stop the flow of the foreign fighters as they called them, but there was a debate withi
got access, not through petraeus, certainly, but to some of the communications he sent back to the pentagon, his sort of weekly letters, and i came to the conclusion that general petraeus did a good job in iraq, and the surge he oversaw worked militarily. it didn't work fully politically for a variety of reasons, but worked militarily. one thing petraeus understood was that al-qaeda, that volunteers coming to join al-qaeda in iraq were coming to the damascus airport, crossing the border, going...
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it wasn't bird flu that brought down the pentagon or the world trade center or anthrax. the real issue was stability, and boston proved that all it takes is two creatures to create havoc among hundreds of thousands of people. so one part of that stability involves, involves proper security. and that involves all sorts of places in the world, especially middle east, since what takes down a lot of people is anarchy. the other part is corruption. you've really not said how to deal effectively with corruption on all levels. you've talked about the top, but not the bottom. and then the other little impetus that goes on are drugs, plus that becomes another additive factor with polygamy, lots of families -- >> do you have a question? >> yes, right. >> okay. >> the question is how do you bring order to disorder when you have a tremendous number of illiterate people and high-tech companies that come into an area that really are out of their league in dealing with ill literacy? >> i think you allow local people to sort of these issues. -- to sort out these issues. and i think ther
it wasn't bird flu that brought down the pentagon or the world trade center or anthrax. the real issue was stability, and boston proved that all it takes is two creatures to create havoc among hundreds of thousands of people. so one part of that stability involves, involves proper security. and that involves all sorts of places in the world, especially middle east, since what takes down a lot of people is anarchy. the other part is corruption. you've really not said how to deal effectively with...
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he'd been in the pentagon. he said, i know those boys in the pentagon, and he knew they hyped the threat, that if they wanted weapon systems they didn't necessarily need, they would find an excuse to get them, and he knew enough to resist, and this is a very hard thing to do in the winter of 1958 when everybody is banging on him to build more weapons and build up our forces. .. >> he was a very smart guy. but in his press conferences, he often would speak in a kind of rambling, slightly incoherent way. it was intentional. once before a press conference in 1955 and aides were saying, oh, you've got to be careful about this question. and he said, oh, don't worry, i'll just confuse them. [laughter] and he did. i notice his memos were all clear as a bell. he was a very clear thinker. but when he needed to, he could play dumb. most people i know, certainly me and most politicians i know, want to be the smartest guy in the room. eisenhower did not suffer from that. he was seen, afghanistan, as a -- of course, as a ge
he'd been in the pentagon. he said, i know those boys in the pentagon, and he knew they hyped the threat, that if they wanted weapon systems they didn't necessarily need, they would find an excuse to get them, and he knew enough to resist, and this is a very hard thing to do in the winter of 1958 when everybody is banging on him to build more weapons and build up our forces. .. >> he was a very smart guy. but in his press conferences, he often would speak in a kind of rambling, slightly...
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he had a vast network of old colleagues in the pentagon bureaucracy. he deliberately forms a back channel. he cultivates this woman in the white house who is president bush's chief adviser on iraq in the national security council. she is wavering from the existing policy, they're talking on the phone every day. picture this. really kind of outrageous. here is general david petraeus, a three star general in fort leavenworth, she is talking on the phone every day with the senior adviser to the president of the united states. she will be asking him general kc, a four star general actually commanding troops in iraq, general kc says we only need one more brigade. what do you think? general david petraeus would mustard these arguments that she could funnel to her seniors on why this isn't really enough. when he comes to washington, they meet in out of the way restaurant. this is not a paula broad well situation. this is strictly professional. can you imagine? essentials subverting the chain of command to get his own views across. he has always kind of been o
he had a vast network of old colleagues in the pentagon bureaucracy. he deliberately forms a back channel. he cultivates this woman in the white house who is president bush's chief adviser on iraq in the national security council. she is wavering from the existing policy, they're talking on the phone every day. picture this. really kind of outrageous. here is general david petraeus, a three star general in fort leavenworth, she is talking on the phone every day with the senior adviser to the...
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average of the pentagon it would've made it a lot better. so we realized you have to go after the people who do the work pay logistics, communications, and build car bombs, communicate. you got to take this out. so we came up with a strategy. i used to tell people it's like rocky balboa. we're going to hit them in the midsection. so from august of 2004 when we get 18 raid from the two years later come the same months commencing force can the same fate. that is 10 a night. if you stop and say that's a lot. that's impressive. that means every raid on the forces going on at least one every night. every pilot is flying one or two every night and these are not patrols. these are going in the door, somebody is getting shot. extraordinary. and to do that, you can't use previous systems. got to be out of print and intelligence on an industrial scale. we got to the point where instead of the plastic bags of information on a target, would start to export their computers, phones, tape amateur that come to west virginia from the target to see if we've e
average of the pentagon it would've made it a lot better. so we realized you have to go after the people who do the work pay logistics, communications, and build car bombs, communicate. you got to take this out. so we came up with a strategy. i used to tell people it's like rocky balboa. we're going to hit them in the midsection. so from august of 2004 when we get 18 raid from the two years later come the same months commencing force can the same fate. that is 10 a night. if you stop and say...
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secretary for the next five and a half years, and then upon retirement from the army continued at the pentagon is deputy assistant secretary of defense, homeland defense, and america security affairs but please join me in welcoming steve bucci. [applause] >> let me add my welcome to all of you. i think you're going to have a real treat this morning, as john mentioned him on a special forces officer by profession, and so this area is near and dear to my heart. this is kind of what we do. they don't let me do it anymore. i mentioned to max when he came in a little historical artifact, and that when i was a cadet at west point i bought a book that had just been published, a two volume set. it was called war in the shadows, the guerrilla in history. that book from 1975 intel now, really has been sort of benchmark for this kind of historical review of the subject area. that's a long time for a book to keep that sort of position. well, with apologies, i think his book is being replaced now, and max has done that with this book which is on sale outside, "invisible armies," he i think you set a new be
secretary for the next five and a half years, and then upon retirement from the army continued at the pentagon is deputy assistant secretary of defense, homeland defense, and america security affairs but please join me in welcoming steve bucci. [applause] >> let me add my welcome to all of you. i think you're going to have a real treat this morning, as john mentioned him on a special forces officer by profession, and so this area is near and dear to my heart. this is kind of what we do....
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say that flew american airlines 77 to the pentagon with all the people killed with the fake id at san francisco trading three months before 9/11. so what i say, question is as old as watergate. i make the argument that they these two cells, the original world trade bombing cell was the cell possible for 9/11. the 9/11 commission -- it seems kind of of, you know, you think that is a threat -- dna rather was the only mainstream journalist on two might -- nights from iraq. the pick which owrn the right is a shot of the cbs evening news with my boom coming over a shot of the 9/11 attack. and dna ratherrers was only main stream journal this case credited me with putting those attacks together. okay. right. the 9/11 commission, i testified before it. the reason i testified is that the jersey girl, the beautiful widows whose husbands went to work and didn't come homemade sure the 9/11 commission happened. they handed out my weak at the commission hearing in the fall pen at governor sent me a letter we want you to testify. who do you think took my testimony on the 9/11 commission? who do you
say that flew american airlines 77 to the pentagon with all the people killed with the fake id at san francisco trading three months before 9/11. so what i say, question is as old as watergate. i make the argument that they these two cells, the original world trade bombing cell was the cell possible for 9/11. the 9/11 commission -- it seems kind of of, you know, you think that is a threat -- dna rather was the only mainstream journalist on two might -- nights from iraq. the pick which owrn the...
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and after that the pentagon and officials in the white house began discussing the creation of a sort of full-spectrum all-star team. and they originally acquired two what are called special missionsen units that could conduct -- missions that could conduct special operations. one was navy seal team six. they wanted the soviets to believe they had a greater capacity than they did, and the other was the army's delta force. and for much of its existence it operated in the shadows in small-scale investigations, they were involved with the killing of pablo escobar, the colombian drug war. after 9/11 cheney and rumsfeld really came up with this idea. they thought that the cia was a liberal think tank which is hilarious to anyone who knows the history of the cia. but they really did believe that the cia had been melted down to, basically, a debased society under the clinton administration. and they felt that the military's covert unit would be the best weapon that the u.s. could use in a discreet global secret war. and so they injected jsoc with steroids. and general stanley mcchrystal ran
and after that the pentagon and officials in the white house began discussing the creation of a sort of full-spectrum all-star team. and they originally acquired two what are called special missionsen units that could conduct -- missions that could conduct special operations. one was navy seal team six. they wanted the soviets to believe they had a greater capacity than they did, and the other was the army's delta force. and for much of its existence it operated in the shadows in small-scale...
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i'm not necessarily talking about the pentagon here. i'm just as easily talking about mcdonald's and their marketing pushes the reality of how they procure their food. for me nuclear weapons is the subject of existential importance in the book is to remind people they are there and to provoke a dialogue not to impose my point of view. having said that -- >> host: i can imagine you don't have a few thoughts. >> guest: i do. having said that where the secretary of defense to call me in and ask for my advice which is about as likely as a meteor striking this building as we speak. >> host: you were not talking about probabilities, remember? >> guest: i would say the first thing that we need to do immediately is sparing no expense in management of nuclear weapons that we currently have. make sure that those who work with them are -- make sure they have the testing equipment that they need. right now some of the testing tg equipment equipment we have five nuclear weapons states back to the 1970s. really in the best and that infrastructure imm
i'm not necessarily talking about the pentagon here. i'm just as easily talking about mcdonald's and their marketing pushes the reality of how they procure their food. for me nuclear weapons is the subject of existential importance in the book is to remind people they are there and to provoke a dialogue not to impose my point of view. having said that -- >> host: i can imagine you don't have a few thoughts. >> guest: i do. having said that where the secretary of defense to call me...
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it was because of tribal rivalries not in afghanistan but in the pentagon. that first brigade of troops was comprised of a u.s. marines and i know i'm in an obelisk. i love the marine corps but the marines insist on bringing their own helicopters and logistics units and they wanted their own corner of the sandbox and so we wound up squandering the first year of the surge because we sent a great marine brigade to the wrong part of the country. instead of getting out into the field to work side-by-side with our military commanders we poured way too much money into that country. afghanistan is richly deserving. they needed help. we turned the fire hose on them and tried to spend $4 billion on reconstruction and 2010 far more than the country recently observed and the last point before i turn it over, the subtitle of my book is the war within the war for afghanistan. i discovered in my reporting back and forth that there was a second of war going on and it was within the beltway, and one of the nastiest fights was between the state department and the white house
it was because of tribal rivalries not in afghanistan but in the pentagon. that first brigade of troops was comprised of a u.s. marines and i know i'm in an obelisk. i love the marine corps but the marines insist on bringing their own helicopters and logistics units and they wanted their own corner of the sandbox and so we wound up squandering the first year of the surge because we sent a great marine brigade to the wrong part of the country. instead of getting out into the field to work...
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when the spending requests came in, ike would say i know those boys down at the pentagon. ike believed that real national security came from a sound economy. as president, he was a deficit hawk who controlled government spending and taxes. his famous speech warning against the military industrial complex came at the end of his presidency, but he had, in fact, been working at it all along, mostly behind the scenes. heaven help us, he liked to say, when we get a president who knows less about the military than i do. his approach to the military was not just about strengthening the economy or saving money. in the berlin crisis of 1958-'59 and the in the crisis in vietnam in 953-'54, over the hermosa straits in 1955, during the suez crisis in 1956, eisenhower was playing a bigger game for higher stakes. as a west point cadet and a young army officer, ike had been a great poker player. indeed, he was so good that he had to give the game up. he was taking too much money away from his fellow officers, and it was hurting his career. he switched to bridge at which he was also formi
when the spending requests came in, ike would say i know those boys down at the pentagon. ike believed that real national security came from a sound economy. as president, he was a deficit hawk who controlled government spending and taxes. his famous speech warning against the military industrial complex came at the end of his presidency, but he had, in fact, been working at it all along, mostly behind the scenes. heaven help us, he liked to say, when we get a president who knows less about the...
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he vowed to pentagon pressure and walked away from it. the ban on landmines, again military pressure clinton folded and finally the international covenant that talked about fanning the role of using teenagers in combat which clinton also favored and he walked away from that as well. all of these are treaties that are still in play that are being ratified by governments but the united states is essentially lined up with nations we call rogue states who have an sign these treaties. when you look at the comprehensive test ban treaty and also the international criminal court which is an extremely important treaty you can see the harm that was done to american foreign policy as we pursue the rule that relied essentially on military power. george w. bush i don't have to really talk about. i think bush is responsible for the worst decision any president throughout our history her history and not just in our lifetime has made in national security and that was the decision to go into iraq based on a list of specious intelligence, intelligence made
he vowed to pentagon pressure and walked away from it. the ban on landmines, again military pressure clinton folded and finally the international covenant that talked about fanning the role of using teenagers in combat which clinton also favored and he walked away from that as well. all of these are treaties that are still in play that are being ratified by governments but the united states is essentially lined up with nations we call rogue states who have an sign these treaties. when you look...
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he understood how the pentagon worked but he didn't quite understand the joint chiefs and the people that were his superiors were there for reasons that would never make him one of them. in other words omar -- was a careful thinker and talker and so is lightning joe collins and so was george marshall. so was dwight d. eisenhower and when there were certain areas integrating the troops, stopping the 38th parallel and women in the military and the question of hoddy of fight a conventional war? did he appeal to reason or appeal to the merits and the argument rather than their political instinct or their desired ability to be like? he did not care about being liked and didn't care whether he had a career afterwards and he suffered for it in a way that i think you would have been valuable for five more years in the military. he was alienated from american discourse on critical issues because of that. david petraeus i think thought that he could navigate through this impossible political situations with the democratic senate on one hand and bush with 32% he was going to be such an upright
he understood how the pentagon worked but he didn't quite understand the joint chiefs and the people that were his superiors were there for reasons that would never make him one of them. in other words omar -- was a careful thinker and talker and so is lightning joe collins and so was george marshall. so was dwight d. eisenhower and when there were certain areas integrating the troops, stopping the 38th parallel and women in the military and the question of hoddy of fight a conventional war?...